More Si Fu for Singapore campaign!!!
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We need more Si Fu (师父，法师) in Singapore! How many Buddhist here? A lot isn't it? Do we have enuf Si Fu here? I dun think so. But we have dvd players isn't it? Thats not enuf. Its one way communication watching DVD. No interaction with the Si Fu.
So lets start a campaign. More Si Fu for Buddhist here!!! Maybe one Si Fu for every 300 Buddhists or more! More Si Fu here, not just airborne and then stay for a few days then gone that type... More Si Fu for Singapore!!!
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Have u ever encounter, when u wanna ask the Si Fu quesiton, the volunteer in the monastery says, the Si Fu too busy? Shows what? Supply of Si Fu is too low. Si Fu dun have time to deal with inidividual Buddhist. Which means what? Too many Buddhists here, too few Si Fu.
We need more Si Fu for Singapore!!! LETS DO SOMETHING TO INCREASE THE SUPPLY OF SI FU HERE! Or else, we can only deal with virtual Si Fu from the tv screen or PC monitor! We need more Si Fu close to us. Someone just a few blocks from where we live! That will be ideal! How to fullfill it? When we have the will, this too will become reality!
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Sometimes we should 培养师父 (nurture new shi fus)... not everything import FT including monks
On the other hand, you can write to big organizations to welcome them over, but I guess most of the big organizations already set up here.
To invite a shi fu over is not so easy... who to take care of them, etc? Must have a following there already.
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Many of my friends said the reason why there are less local shifu is because in Singapore 好�好�. Quite true.
Another way of communicating with shifu nowadays is ask them for their e-mail address. Communicate with them via e-mail.
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tot to become the "title" of "Fa Shi" , Dharma master also not easy. like rinpoche in Tibetan Buddhism. normally they are just Bhikshu/Bhikshuni. Lama?
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then again, i learn that asking question is wandering/dualistic thoughts. if possible, listen/read the dharma a few times, and as time goes by, one's realisation will increase by itself when the mind is clear/still. i ever listen/read to the same dharma, and the realisation is deeper the more u listen/read. this is truely 如�真实�, that mean when the word come out of Buddha's mouth, u automatically understand on the spot without any thinking. but when the mind go and figure out the meaning, the Buddha word went into a thinking process and become your meaning, then that's not Buddha's real meaning 如�真实�. as it had gone throught the 6th consciousness(analysis/dualism) or even the 7th consciousness(ego/attachment). so there's an issue with out thinking. it's not 我的�识.
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